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...survival essential for the Cabinet to work. It includes the province's major Catholic party, the pacifist SocialDemocraticandLaborParty or SDLP, and the hard-line Protestants of the Democratic Unionist Party. Stripping the Cabinet's powers...

...must deliver on its promise. Seamus Mallon, leader of the province's major Catholic party, the pacifist SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, also said the entire province must ensure that the newly reformed government - the centerpiece of the landmark...

...Trimble said he hoped the biggest Catholic-supported party in the coalition, John Hume's moderate SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, would side with the Ulster Unionists and expel Sinn Fein from the Cabinet. "Other parties will have the...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Negotiations on a new Protestant-Catholic government for Northern Ireland failed Friday, prompting the British and Irish prime ministers to launch an alternative plan to jump-start the government in the next 16 days.

...proportions that injected fresh hope into efforts to sustain the 1998 peace accord. The move by the moderate SocialDemocraticandLaborParty ended decades of boycott by Catholic leaders of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the predominantly Protestant...

...IRA starts to disarm as the peace pact intended. Seamus Mallon, deputy leader of the Catholic-supported SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, said an agreement was possible this weekend. "That's why we're here, and we hope that it's decision...

...announced his resignation as Trimble's would-be Catholic deputy. Mallon, deputy leader of the pacifist SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, which represents most of the province's Catholics, said the Ulster Unionists had opted "to use this...

Brogue-laced discussion has replaced the noise and terror of bombs and gunfire in Northern Ireland as the Irish Republican Army has begun a new cease-fire. May this one hold. The last cease-fire held for 17 months. Then the terror began again with a deadly bombing, an all-too-common IRA tactic.

...IRA prisoners without a cast-iron guarantee that the IRA would start disarming. Of Hume, leader of the SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, the citation said he had "throughout been the clearest and most consistent of Northern Ireland's political...

...product." The British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's major Catholic-supported party, the SocialDemocraticandLaborParty, praised Trimble for managing to drop his party's long-standing policy of demanding IRA disarmament...